[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] full-text searching since the Vector switch in en.wikipedia

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On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 4:03 PM, Amir E. Aharoni
<amir.aharoni at mail.huji.ac.il> wrote:
> I sincerely hate to sound repetitive and annoying, but since the switch to
> Vector in en.wikipedia it's impossible to run a full-text search of
> Wikipedia using the search box if there's an article by the same name.
>
> The "Search" button is gone, because it was supposed to be possible to run a
> full-text search in the redesigned search box without that button, but
> apparently this doesn't actually work. It's only possible to run a full-text
> search by switching back to Monobook or by manually going to Special:Search
> (there's no link to it anywhere).
>
> So basically, for five days already it's practically impossible to search
> for information within Wikipedia. Read this again: it's impossible to search
> Wikipedia. Am i crazy if i think that this is a very severe problem?
>
> This is reported as a bug:
> https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=23558
>
> The right thing to do is to restore the go and search buttons immediately
> and consider reintroducing the new search box after it has been thoroughly
> tested. Is there any reason not to do this?
>
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